While I waited in the doctor’s office last week I became captivated by the program on televisions placed around the room. The show being broadcast was something about finding beachfront properties for people.
The episode was of a couple looking at a beachfront apartment, 800SF with a balcony from which they could see the ocean. They were quite thrilled with the apartment because it was only $450K; they had anticipated spending much more. They did lament, however, that there was only one sink in the master bath and would have to share it.
Now please know, I’m not knocking any of you who have two (or more) sinks in your master bath. I’ve never had more than one, and while I’ve had to share a bathroom for 53 years, we’ve seldom shared it at the same time. I have not really experienced the need nor the joy of having two sinks.
Still. It made me think about those who have no master baths, or perhaps no bathrooms at all. It made me wonder about those who must haul water manually from distant places in order to have something clean to drink, and about those who have no clean drinking water from any distance.
I remember when we had seven young men from around the world staying with us one summer. One said that his people back home could not understand the concept of garages … that our cars “lived in houses” while they had many generations living in one room.
As a nation we are truly blessed with abundance. There is nothing wrong in that, but we need to be so careful that our abundance doesn’t morph into greed and covetousness. If we are blessed, I truly believe God’s purpose in that is that we use our abundance to also bless others.
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” [Matt 25:35-36]
